Lesson Plan for
Sanitation Promotion Cycle 4:
Treatment and Safe Storage
of Water
Objective
Welcome back
Instructor’s Activity
Sanitation Promoter’s Activity
20’
Instructor welcomes participants and is interested
to hear what happened in the field.
Instructor may ask:
How did it go?
Do you have any questions?
What did people say?
Do you or anybody have concerns?
Do you believe the households you have visited
are using proper hand washing techniques?
What did you observe, what kind of water source
does your community use? Is it safe?
How has the community responded to the
sanitation efforts in the past 3 months?
Time
Participants have time to report from their
experiences, express questions and concerns.
Instructor may write some key points on paper and
hang it on wall in order to have references.
Responding to Promoters
After having gathered key points, questions and
concerns, instructor decides how to respond.
Takes most urgent questions first, might wait with
others because they may be topics of upcoming
session(s).
15’ (35’)
Introduction to fourth
session
Cycle 4
Content of session:
Treatment and storage of water
5‘ (47’)
2
Instructor’s Activity
Objective
Sanitation Promoter
Workbook for Cycle 4
Sanitation Promoter’s Activity
Time
7‘ (54’)
Short discussion about Workbook: Was it useful,
helpful?
Hands out Sanitation Promoter Workbook Cycle 4.
May repeat function of the book.
Participants have time to look through the
book.
Stop microbes: treat your
water
Lecture about chlorine.
Instructor may write on board: Chlorine must be
used to kill microbes in water that we drink!
Participants may take notes. Copy from board
in Workbook p. 3: Notes
Poster:
“Stop microbes treat your
water”
Instructor presents poster and writes the following
10’ (64’)
(1h)
words on board: Sedimentation, Filtration,
Disinfection
Presents poster/maybe examples of Petri Dishes
and bottles of contaminated/clean water
Key Messages:
Various sedimentation, filtration and disinfection
methods can be used to treat water.
Adding alum to the water and allowing it to settle,
filtering water and disinfection water by boiling or
chlorine are effective at removing or killing
microbes that cause illness from water in order to
make it safe to drink.
Optional: depending on time
Class discussion: Emphasizes weaknesses of the methods in the pictures. Clear water is not
necessarily safe unless it is treated with chlorine. Using sun for disinfection is not enough to kill
microbes in large amount of water.
3
7‘ (76’)
Objective
Poster:
“How Water is
Contaminated”
Instructor’s Activity
Sanitation Promoter’s Activity
“You already know this poster. Fill-in the blank
labels and answer key messages and questions.”
Workbook pages 4 and 5.
Optional: depending on
time
Poster:
“Protect treated water”
Optional: depending on
time
7‘ (95’)
Individual work
Compare with partner
Participants may have stories about
children/adults who are sick because of
contaminated water
Instructor hands out following questions:
“What do you see?”
“Can you guess what these pictures mean?”
“After you have received a LWTS people still may
get sick if they drink water. Do you have any idea
why this may happen?
Time
5‘ (100’)
20‘ (120’)
(2h)
Small group activity:
Groups come up with answers and choose a
presenter
Groups present their findings to the large group (class).
Class with help of instructor fills-in labels and blanks in Workbook pages 6 and 7
Store treated water
correctly
Instructor presents containers (covered/clean,
covered/unclean, uncovered/unclean,
covered/unclean, covered/unclean with tap,
covered/clean with tap...)
Participants stand around the containers and
explain what they see. Sort out clean, covered
containers and clean, covered containers with
tap.
Instructor summarizes criteria for containers that
keep water safe.
Participants may take notes. Copy from board
in Workbook p. 7: Notes
Emphasizes again what happens if the container is
not clean or open.
4
20’ (140’)
Objective
Poster:
“Store treated water
correctly”
Instructor’s Activity
Sanitation Promoter’s Activity
Instructor works with class: Fill-in blank labels on
page 8 and finish key messages and question 2.
Class work: Participants fill out p. 9
Time
10’ (150’)
Key Messages:
When storing treated water, always make sure the
container is covered.
Containers with small openings and taps prevent
recontamination of water from hands, insects and
utensils.
Short Break
Instructor recognized the Sanitation Promoter’s commitment and completion of first cycle with a gift
from WMI in form of a badge, arm band, t-shirt, etc.
Participants’ Training
Instructor divides class in five groups.
Each group receives a poster with the assignment
to teach it to the large group (class). The following
questions might help for the preparation of the
presentation.
Instructor may write them on board:
1. What do you see on the poster?
2. What is most important to know?
(Hint: go back and read “key messages” in
Workbook)
Participants discuss and prepare poster
session. Each group chooses a presenter who
has not presented yet.
Poster Presentation
Instructor is part of the audience, may take notes
for feedback.
Participants present poster.
Audience may take notes for further
discussion, questions and feedback
Sanitation Promotion Plan
5‘ (155’)
20‘ (175’)
Class discussion, feedback session (Instructor is encouraging, supportive, helpful but also
challenging, referring to the upcoming assignment in their community).
10’ (185’)
With help of the map, instructor and participants discuss who goes to visit which houses and
families.
5‘ (190’)
5
(3h)
Objective
Financial Sustainability
Instructor’s Activity
Sanitation Promoter’s Activity
Instructor answers questions and emphasizes how
important it is to promote that people have to pay
for water to keep the project going.
Time
7‘ (197’)
Have time to answer questions.
Sanitation Promoter
Agreement
Presents a picture of a happy child/family with safe
water/shows two bottles of water, one with safe
water the other with contaminated water.
Sanitation Promoters agree to carry out
Sanitation promotion as planned
3‘ (207’)
Sanitation Promoter’s
Assignment
Ask promoters to give a short statement about their
assignment for the upcoming week.
1.Go to see household, teach posters of
Cycle 4 - hand out brochure Cycle 4
2. If necessary talk about financial plan,
answer questions
5‘ (212’)
Closure
Depending on instructor and setting of the group.
Emphasize the importance of being a Sanitation
Promoter. People and children look up to them.
They will be the role models for changed behavior.
Calls on their good spirits and endurance as well
as commitment and courage for change and
healthy people.
(May illustrate and summarize with the example
three legged table: Water/Hygiene/Sanitation) Let
them know that it can happen in the future that
they will get called again to teach the families or to
each interested people.
Thank them for their hard work and commitment to
the cause.
SWC Sanitation
Coordinator
6
8‘ (220’)
Instructor
*** Who will be teaching this section depends on setting.
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